Mortality's Mirror: Ethical Beetle Ballet in Water swarm

Mortality's Mirror: Ethical Beetle Ballet in Water swarmThe Butterfly, or Swarm, series explores themes of transformation, fragility, and mortality through the symbolic and physical presence of butterflies suspended within water. Across cultures and histories, the butterfly has carried layered meanings regeneration, freedom, spirituality, and death most notably within Greek thought, where it is closely associated with the soul. These works engage with that symbolic lineage while grounding it in direct

sm  w   40 gms h120 x w30 x d30 mm

Artist signature & date recto in black ink

small 2  w 28 gms h23 x w23 x d85 mm

each named after a stage in a salmon's life cycle

The world has changed so dramatically since then

limited Edition of 25 archival pigment prints

0109’  dated 2017

water and the material conditions of image formation

Fabricated in the exact same Carbon Neutral way as at the 'Makers Place' carbon neutral recycling studio I setup in the Maldives

They were elegant

The larger Nautilus edition functions equally as sculptural hardware and as an architectural statement piece

Monochrome recordings heighten our consciousness of our precarious existence